HTC has decided to enter the tablet computer market with the announcement of the HTC Flyer. The HTC flyer comes with a 1.5ghz mobile processor and support for a HTC Scribe pen which a user can use to write on the tablet as it were a piece of paper. The device will be compatible with […]

Smart phones have come from humble beginnings in the 1990’s to becoming an essential tool that make businesses work. Early smart phones didn’t offer much in the way of processing capabilities or useful applications. Today there are thinner, lighter devices that have more of memory and speed to power through the most crucial tasks. This […]

In a recent survey, MasterCard has has found that a majority of U.S. consumers aged 18-34 are ready for contactless mobile payments. Some 63% of respondents aged 18-34 agreed they “would be at ease” using mobile phones to make purchases, compared to only 37% of those age 35 or older. Additionally, 65% of 18-34 year […]

Orange and Barclaycard have announced the launch of Quick Tap, the UK’s first contactless mobile payment service for merchants and consumers. Consumers can simply tap their mobile phone on a contactless reader to pay for purchases of £15 or less at over 50,000 nationwide locations, including Pret a Manger, EAT., Little Chef, Wembley Arena, Subway, […]

A face recognition app is available for $7 download to an Apple iPhone 4 so long as it has been jailbroken, the act of hacking into a phone’s firmware to enable a user to bypass limits or controls set by developers, according to a Dvice article. The application, called RecognizeMe, utilizes the front facing camera […]

NetSTAR has signed an agreement with Mobile Active Defense to protect smart phones and Tablets using its software. The agreement will provide security to all carriers in Japan. Mobile Active Defense will make available its Mobile Enterprise Compliance and Security Server to filter content in the APAC region. The Mobile Enterprise Compliance and Security server […]

VMware has introduced a new application for iOS, which promises to bring desktop like virtualization features to the mobile platform. VMware has been working on this project for a while dubbed Project Horizon. VMware Horizon App Manager, as the application is being called, will help end users and IT professionals work anywhere using the cloud […]

VeriFone and MICROS Systems have teamed up to develop a new solution that enables restaurant goers to pay at the table with NFC-enabled phones. According to the partners, this is the first practical service allowing restaurants to accommodate NFC payment and rewards technology. The new system combines VeriFone’s PAYware Mobile Enterprise POS system, which adapts […]

Slated for launch in 2012, ISIS will aim to bring contactless mobile payments to the majority of American cell phone users. So, how exactly will it work? Forbes, which was recently privy to a sneak preview, examines the nuts and bolts of the exciting new service: According to Forbes, the ISIS app will come preloaded […]

GAO RFID has introduced its ultra-high frequency Gen2 RFID reader, model 216007, featuring enhanced interference rejection and mono-static antenna connections, with a small footprint and high read rate. The reader prevents data loss by saving tag information in its non-volatile memory, which preserves data even in the event of a power failure. Another key feature […]